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MI Bottle House, built from 60,000+ bottles, Kaleva, MI ( US 31)

MI Call of the Wild ( More dead animals ) Gaylord, MI.

MI Derby wearing cow on the roof of Golden Nugget Saloon, Irish Hills, MI

MI Giant 30' neon Kielbasa, Kowalski Sausage, Hamtramck

MI Hand cranked ferry, between Douglas & Saugatuck,on the Kalamazoo River, MI

MI Hell, MI

MI Hiawatha,52 feet, Ironwood, MI

MI Home of the worlds largest Tire, Dearborn , MI.

MI More Paul Bunyons in Grayling, Manistique and Oscoda

MI Old Windmill,Holland,MI

MI Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, abandoned amusement park, Rt. 23, Ossineke, MI

MI Pizza Boxes, An Abbor, MI  More Info

MI World's Largest Hair Ball, Michigan State University,

MI Derby wearing cow on the roof of Golden Nugget Saloon, Irish Hills, MI

MI Giant 30' neon Kielbasa, Kowalski Sausage, Hamtramck

MI 1893 World's Fair Load of Logs, still attached to the sled, Ewen, MI

MI Zubler's indian( 50 feet and tacky) souvenir shop in Houghton Lake, MI

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Weird Museums

MI Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum( Outrageous!!) Farmington Hills MI

MI The Shrine of the Pines( absolute must for wood lovers!) Baldwin, MI

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Mystery Spots

These places have strange powers.   Approach with great caution!

Mystery Spot, St. Ignite, MI

The Underground Railroad

MI The Dr. Nathan Thomas House, Schoolcraft, MI    More Info

MI The Second Baptist Church, Detroit, MI    More Info

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Haunted Places

Coldwater - Halstead House - haunted by the ghosts 2 children who are seen on the stairs.

Detroit - General Motors Plant - a man was saved from being crushed by a ghost of man that died that way in 1944.

Grand Rapids - Michigan Bell Telephone Company -  haunted by the Randall's , whose home stood on the ground where this building is today.

Holly - Holly hotel -  various happenings. ghosts of people, guests, things that go bump in the night.

Flint - Cornwall building -   the old Cornwall family is said to still walk the place. You can see them in the window of the old office from 3rd street.

Burton - Friend's house - banging on walls, little boys with no legs playing with stereo, bouncing ball in basement and shattering glass.

Wyandotte - Fifteenth Street House - there is an apparition of a young girl who appears in the window in the front of the house.  As the story goes, there was a man that would leave for work at the same time every day, and every day his little girl would wave goodbye to him from the window.   One day she was not there to wave goodbye, so he figured she had overslept and went to leave, when he began to back up he heard a scream, when he got out of the car to take a look he found that she was running his lunch out to him and was hit by the car, while he was backing up.

Fife Lake - Battenfield House - Previous residence of one of MI well known mass murderers who was found to have poisioned several family members because she liked to attend social events and used the murders to provide the social contact she craved. Two of the murders occurred in this house. Hauntings include burning flames seen on upstairs newel post which left no heat or burn.

Dearborn - Greenfield Village -   haunted by many ghosts in most of the homes, the most active are in Firestone Farm, and Webster home. A man commited sucide in the barn at the farm, and Webster is just unhappy.

Ypsilanti - Denton Road Bridge - The story goes that a group of kids were playing chicken near Denton Road bridge, and one of them proved to be chicken.  His car swerved off the road when they reached the bridge, and crashed into the river below.  Many people claim to see a light come out of river and chase their vehicle to the end of the road, if they stop at the center of the bridge at night.

Sheldrake - The Town of Sheldrake -   is about four miles north of Paradise, Michigan. You can't find Sheldrake on any map, because it if a VERY small town.  Few people live there, but none of them will talk about the hauntings.  People that live there year-round will see more than any tourist.   Lights turning on by themselves, window shades opening without anyone around, and an old sea captain who will disapper when boats pass.  They had many fires and boat accidents.

Detroit - Coca-cola Plant -  a supervisor was shot by a disgruntled employee in the 50s.  He is sometime seen yelling at workers and keeping the line running when the supervisors are gone.

Ypsilanti - Ladies'  Library - This historic structure was once the home of the Starkweather family, but was donated to the city by Maryanne Starkweather upon her death, to be used as a library.  It was renovated for office space about 15 years ago.  Many claim to have seen Maryanne in the upper halls of building, or have hear footsteps above them when working after hours - long after the building was closed up for the day.

Roberts Landing - Roberts Landing road - Two adults and 1 child walk the Roberts Landing road at sunset.  Said to have been returning home from a  party when their home was destroyed by fire. They keep returning in their car, which is also seen.

Schoolcraft - The Harrison Cemetery -  the site in question is the "glowing tombstone" , at a distance you can see one tombstone glow in the dark.  The tombstone glows until you get to the edge of the cemetery, then it goes dark. You cant really pinpoint the actual tomb and there's no lights around to illuminate it either.  Some say its made out of phosphorous and others say its mercury vapor reflecting off a shiny tombstone. but it doesn't explain why it goes dark when you get within 500 feet. the only close house to it is 1/4 mile away.   The cemetery is named after Bazel Harrison, who led 21 of the first settlers of the Prarie Ronde Kalamazoo county.  Both him and his wife martha are buried there.

Jackson - Vander Cook Lake Castle - A white mist is seen as you approach the castle.

Grand Rapids - Amway Grand Plaza Hotel  - in the old part (smoking section now).  Objects moving on their own.

Niles - Bond Street Mansion - The bond street family cemetary is across the road.  A little girl who lived with her parents in the mansion died of fright in the 1800's after her bedside candle was blown out by a draft in the middle of the night.   She is buried in a tomb in the cemetary. It is said that her mother had an underground pathway built under the road to her daughters tomb and she would visit the tomb every night. They say to this day,you can see the woman's ghost walk across the road and weep at her daughters grave and every night a mysterious light will shine in the upstairs bedroom window and then suddenly go out.

Kalamazoo - Old State Hospital - Red lights, noises and even writing on the walls take place here between 11-12 at night. People who live near it say different things occur every night....even the image of a person in the window.

Willis - The Pickle Barrel restaurant  - has a various ghostly activity.

Mt. Pleasant - The Ghost of Warriner Hall - long ago there was a young actress who frequented Warriner Hall (CMU campus).  Evidently at some performance or rehearsal...she was downstairs from a friend of hers and decided to call up to this friend using the Dumbwaiter shaft that had been out of commission for some time.  As she leaned her head in, the dumbwaiter came crashing down and beheaded her!  Since the incedent, there have been a few sightings.   A mysterious blue lighting accompanies her spirit, and she has never been seen by a crowd...generally she is seen by actors or stage hands working alone.  She seems a bit of a prankster,dropping lights, or gels or ladders.

Van Buren - Hawks head cemetery - This is supposedly the burial ground for Al Capones misstress by the name of Flora.   Many people have seen  an apparition of a female in a transparent like white dress.  Before she is seen you will here chimes coming from the back of the cemetery, she will then apear somwhere the first two driveways.   Also If you just drive by the cemetary, there is dim red light that will appear along side of the middle driveway.  Commonly known as a ghost-light...

Ann Arbor- Huron High School theatre.
Story goes some time in the late 70s a student named Mary (last name never mentioned) who, while working on some lighting fixtures alone one day, fell from the catwalks head first and died upon the stage. Sightings include actors and stagehands seeing a girl up in the catwalks wearing a light pink dress. Also, in the prop room where all the senior thespians spray paint their names on the wall shortly after Mary's death her name appeared in bold red paint above the doorway about seventeen feet from the floor and upside down.

Traverse City- Bower's Harbor Inn
Captain of a Great Lakes shipping liner, the house was built for his wife, Genavieve.   The nurse who was hired to care for the wife (who was in poor health) had an affair with the captain. After discovering the affair, the wife hung herself in the elevator shaft which had been installed for her use.   The mansion is now an excellent restaurant.

Novi-Home Sweet Home
A couple from the early 1800's is said to haunt their once home.  There is a 12-ft oak banister right in the doorway where the man is said to appear. Also strange noises in the bathroom and dining areas.  Although it is used as a restaurant, nobody ventures into the attic where lights and other sightings have been witnessed. The building is located at 9-mi and Novi road, yet it can't seem to stay open for business.

East Lansing-Fairchild Auditorium
There is a boy who roams the halls of the auditorium. Also, there have been stories of weird noises coming from the stage areas.

Grayling-Pere Cheney Cemetery-
Not far from Grayling is a cemetery from the late 1800's named after a small town that died out circa 1900.  The cemetery has only a handful of tombstones, many of which have been vandalized or withered with age.  There is reference to several mass graves there from a plague of small pox and a major fire that destroyed the town.  The cemetery has produced several tales of problems with electrical devices such as cars and radios, as well as sightings of ghostly figures and childish laughter.

Soul Choix Point -Upper Penn
It is said that the lighthouse there is haunted by one of the old keepers.
there has been some work done and the put 12 cigars on the table and sealed off the room for the night, the next morning, with the seal undisturbed the cigars were found throughout the room including one in the pocket of the keepers uniform which was on display in the room.

Olivet-Olivet College-
Small Liberal Arts College and town founded in 1844.  Countless accounts of sightings and objects coming out of the wall.  One picture shows a face coming out of the wall of local society house. Multiple eyewitnesses accounts of objects moving around in college areas as well as throughout the town.  Phantom music has been noted coming from empty dorms when security was the only one in the dorm (Shipherd's Hall). There are many different pictures and eye witness accounts as the college and town are over 150 years old.

Ada Cemetery
Ada witch.  Sometimes you can see a misty blue figure floating within a 3-mile radius of the Ada Cemetery on 2 Mile between Egypt Valley and Honey Creek.

Traverse City - Bower's Harbor Inn -
The restaurant on Old Mission Peninsula is a well-known haunt.  The house was supposedly left to Genevieve by her late-husband.  Meantime, it's said, all of his other assets were inherited by a mistress.  Heart-broken and betrayed, Genevieve later died in the house and is said to still walk the stairs, open windows, blow out candles and appear in an antique mirror in the ladies' second-floor restroom.

Farmington Hills-Farmington Cemetery-
On Grand River just past Farmington road there is a cemetery that is haunted.  If you are leaving through the west gate, which is on a hill, and you put your car in neutral, your car is mysteriously "pushed" up the hill and out of the gate of the Cemetery.

Battle Creek-  Oak Hill Cemetery-
At appox. midnight every Sunday night a statue of the Virgin Mary seems to weep this story is over  60 years old everybody in Battle Creek has heard of this story.  We all call her (CRYING MARY)

North of Eagale River in the UP-
You can see a large light at the end of Robins Road off Highway 45.  The light changes colors and moves closer.  If you try to move to it will disappear.  A blue light has been seen coming up the road, and then when you leave you will see what they call "The Hitchiker."  If you try to pick him up he will disappear.   No one has ever seen his face.  At the spotting of the light were you park your car people have seen many people walking around.  Best known is the Indian princess.  People have heard train whistles and deafening screams.  The legend has it is there was a conductor who hung himself on the train and the red light you see is the lantern.

Dearborn-Greenfiled village at Henry ford museum-
Henry ford museum has a car from the time President Kennedy was Shot. In the evening on the anniversary he has been spotted standing next to his car waving to the security officers and leaving a single red rose on the hood of the car. Often felt a cold wind and was also told he said that there was two men that Oswell was not the man that shot him there was another man out side the building that was standing on the lawn where there was trees and shot him.

New Baltimore-Morrow Road-
It is said that this area is ancient burial grounds of the Indians.  There are houses that cannot be built there and one spirit in particular that is around.  She is said to be wearing a white blood covered gown carrying her dead baby.  Also a green light will chase people away.

Westland-Eloise Insane Asylum-
The ghosts of many of the tormented patients walk the halls of this asylum that was converted into an office building.  Voices are heard by the workers and teenagers who go to this location for a thrill.  Many picture of paranormal things have been captured at this location.  Lights are turned on and off.  Growls and moans are heard by the playground built for the use of the office workers' kids.

Cheboygan - Hikyes Tomb-
An old farmer went insane and killed his family and then himself. If you go out to the site at night you feel overwhelmed by fright. And never take a stone from the tomb you will be dealt with in a not so nice matter. 2 people drove over the tomb on purpose and there truck just died for no reason. There friends in a car behind them had the steering wheel jerked and they crashed into a tree.

Marquette-Northern Michigan University-
The Forrest Roberts Theatre is inhabited by an old janitor who died of a heart attack in the elevator.  He has been seen by dozens of people in various parts of the theatre.

Straville-Marrow Rd.-
You first go there around 2 a.m., park near the bridge (visible from road), roll down your windows, take keys out of ignition, set them on the dash board, and wait, but be aware once you see him (a glowing transparent light coming out of the woods) its not only but a second that he's inside your car before you can get your keys and start the car.

Presque Isle- Light House-
Wife of past keeper haunts.  She killed her husband for revenge on his cheating.   She terrifies the visitors of the historical monument.

Marshall-International House (bed and breakfast-now)-
There is a lady in red who is seen, just by a glimpse, that walks the halls. It is said that she will not let anyone leave the door open to one of the sleeping rooms. It is felt that this must have been her own room when she was still alive. Some times she is seen standing in one of the windows late at night.

Newaygo High School-
There was once a girl who was bit by a poisonous snake when she was in a patch of trees behind the school smoking a cigarette. There she died and some people have seen her leaning against a tree in those same woods.

Kelloggsville-Kelloggsville High School-
A young girl in the 9th grade died in the math classroom, because of a brain tumor back in the 1960's.Her presence can be felt all the time and weird stuff happens randomly in that upstairs room.

Marquette-Landmark Inn-
A room in the hotel is believed to be haunted by Amelia Earhart.

Bloomield Hills-Fox and Hounds Restaurant-
It is one of the most expensive restaurants on the states, every night around 11:30 pm, the cooks notice that all the pots and pans fall out of the shelves. They noticed this for about 12 times then put them on the ground. The next morning they are back on the top shelves.


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Ann Arbor,MI Just outside town, if you look off to the right as you travel on the freeway ramp from US-23 North onto M-14 East going toward Detroit, there is a work depicting a very large number of pizza boxes, haphazardly stacked. It stands in a section of the Domino Farms, headquarters of Domino's Pizza Corp

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The Dr. Nathan Thomas House, built in 1835, was the home of one of Michigan's most active Underground Railroad participants, a founding member of the state's Republican Party and Kalamazoo County's first physician. Born in Mt. pleasant, Ohio, a Quaker town well-known for the antislavery activities of its residents, Dr. Nathan Thomas (1803-1887) settled in Schoolcraft around 1833. In 1835, he constructed a building that served as both an office and residence. Five years later he enlarged the house when he married Pamela Brown of nearby Prairie Ronde township. Pamela Brown Thomas' memoirs, written in 1892, provide much information on her and her husband's Underground Railroad activities. Referring to Dr. Thomas' early days in Schoolcraft, before their marriage and the construction of his office and residence in 1835, Mrs. Thomas wrote, "His antislavery views were so well known, that, while he was a bachelor boarding at the hotel, fugitives from slavery had called on him for assistance and protection." Pamela Brown Thomas estimated that between 1840 and 1860 she and her husband helped between 1,000 to 1,500 fugitive slaves escape into freedom. By the mid-1840s, a group of abolitionists in southwest Michigan had created an organized system for transporting fugitive slaves. Slaves were often brought to the Thomas House by Zachariah Shugart, a fellow Quaker living on Young's Prairie, Cass County. Dr. Thomas would then shuttle the runaways to Erastus Hussey, another fellow Quaker living in Battle Creek. The slaves would eventually make their way to Detroit and onto freedom in Canada. The first physician in Kalamazoo County, Dr. Thomas not only practiced medicine but also became involved in state politics. In 1837, he was one of 400 residents in Prairie Ronde and Brady (now Schoolcraft) townships who petitioned Congress in opposition to the annexation of Texas because of the territory's support of slavery. Two years later, he joined others in founding a Michigan newspaper devoted to the antislavery cause and in 1845 ran unsuccessfully as Lt. Governor on the abolitionist Liberty Party ticket. A key participant in an 1854 antislavery convention in Jackson, Michigan, Dr. Thomas was a nominating committee member of the newly-formed Michigan Republican party. The party ticket triumphed that year, beginning a period of Republican domination of the state government.

The Dr. Nathan Thomas House is located at 613 East Cass Street in Schoolcraft, Michigan. Tours are available by appointment by writing to: Schoolcraft Historical Society, P.O. Box 638, Schoolcraft, Michigan 49087.

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The Second Baptist Church, featuring subdued Gothic elements, was constructed in 1914 to replace an earlier church building. It continues to house Michigan's first African American congregation. The congregation was established in 1836, when 13 former slaves decided to leave the First Baptist Church because of its discriminatory practices. The church quickly became involved in the period's most bitter dispute--slavery. First meeting at a hall on Fort St, the congregation moved to the present location in 1857. Just miles away from the freedom that the Canadian border offered to escaped slaves, the church soon became a stop on the Underground Railroad. Its leaders helped form the Amherstburg Baptist Association and the Canadian Anti-Slavery Baptist Association, both of which supported abolitionism. These organizations aided the ever-increasing number of fugitive slaves fleeing north, both spiritually and materially. Significant figures in the abolitionist movement were associated with the church, such as Soujourner Truth, John Brown, and Frederick Douglas. Douglas discussed abolition with Second Baptist leaders before addressing citizens at the church 1859.

The church's activism was not limited to slavery, however. In 1843 and in 1865, it hosted a "State Convention of Colored Citizens" to petition the Michigan government for Negro Suffrage. After the Civil War, the church played a vital role in helping thousands of migrating freed slaves in securing homes and jobs in and around Detroit. The present Second Baptist Church building replaced the Congregation's first church which was destroyed by fire in 1914. Two additions, one in 1926, and a second in 1968, flank either side of the building and testify to the congregation's continued vitality. The Second Baptist Church today remains, as it has been throughout its history, a source of inspiration and encouragement to its members and neighbors.

The Second Baptist Church is at located at 441 Monroe Street, just east of the intersection of Gratiot Avenue (US 25) and Woodward Avenue within the Greektown Historic District. The building is open to the public.

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